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[[Image:Eirvol1874.png|thumb|350px|East Indian Railway Volunteers 1874]]
The '''East Indian Railway Regiment''' were an [[auxiliary regiment]] under the Bengal command. They included staff of the [[East Indian Railway]].
Rudyard Kipling wrote in 1888, in respect of Jamalpur,
:"On Tuesdays and Fridays the volunteers parade. A and B Companies, 150 strong in all, of the E.I.R. Volunteers, are stationed here with the band. Their uniform, grey with red facings, is not lovely, but they know how to shoot and drill. They have to. The ‘Company’ makes it a condition of service that a man must be a volunteer; and volunteer in something more than name he must be, or some one will ask the reason why. Seeing that there are no regulars between Howrah and Dinapore, the ‘Company’ does well in exacting this toll"<ref>Among the Railway Folk by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide</ref>
==Chronology==
